Posted on 05/14/2017 12:06:07 PM PDT by drewh
Todd Rundgren isn’t bothered that some of his fans might avoid his concerts due to his politics. The 68-year-old musician and record producer conceded as much in an interview with Variety when asked about an incident in which a couple walked out of a concert in Los Angeles due to comments he made about President Donald Trump.
“No,” Rundgren said when asked if it bothered him. “I’d say: If you’re a Trump supporter, don’t come to my show, because you won’t have a good time. And also, I don’t understand your frickin’ values. Because I’m not singing about that. If you don’t understand that basic thing, you’re just fooling yourself.”
Rundgren is currently on a cross-country tour, with multiple dates in Florida and Texas, states that Trump won during the 2016 campaign. But the musician told Variety that Trump supporters “will likely be offended” if they attend his concerts.
“Let the buyer beware! I mean, if you can’t take a joke, or you can’t admit that you’ve made a mistake, you don’t belong with the rest of us,” he said with a laugh.
Elsewhere in the interview, Rundgren explained that music is the most “plagiaristic” art when compared with other forms, because there are only so many ways musicians can arrange a limited amount of notes together.
“You’ve got the western 12-tone scale. That’s essentially 11 notes. So you’re eventually going to run out of melodies, just by the pure mathematics of it,” he said. “So the whole art of making music is trying to obscure the fact that this is a melody from another song and has just been changed in subtle enough ways that you don’t recognize it.”
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Husband and I have tickets to the “YEStival” here in Oklahoma City in August. Todd is going to be there, however Carl Palmer and Yes are getting my attention, anyway. I’ve never seen him before and wouldn’t be seeing him this time if it weren’t for Yes.
We have seats right in front of the stage. I may end up having a t-shirt made that says something like “That’s OK, Todd...I’m just here to see YES, anyway”, or similar. And maybe “Hello..it’s who?” on the back.
I’ll take a joke if he can.
No problem, and don’t come to mine. What? You haven’t heard of me? Well I haven’t heard of you either.
I won’t.
Only familiar with John Prine’s unrelated song
https://youtu.be/v9Unua9Y-a0
Just put MAGA on it,in great big letters.
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Who the hell is he?
“Hello it’s Me”.... Whatever....
Nah. He was a decent singer who had a handful of hits during the 70s.
I really like a lot of Todd's music, but calling him a leftist moonbat is something of an understatement.
But he's also incredibly talented. Yes, he's had a number of top ten hits over the years, and written songs for other artists, but where his talent really shines is as a producer.
His production helped resurrect the careers of Grand Funk Railroad, Hall & Oates, and XTC. He also produced albums by Badfinger, The Band, The New York Dolls, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Patty Smith. But his production skills are probably best known for his work on Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell."
He was also a very early innovator in both video production and digital synthesizers.
I really love some of his work, other, not so much, but he's an innovator, and his work behind the scenes in the music world have been very influential.
Mark
He sounds like hippie whose brain has fried.
Ok then...
Who in the hell are you? Another worthless piece of trash.
I never heard of him and don’t care to hear of him.
For dims and leftists, yeah, it does! :-)
Mark
He’s got a musical education for kids foundation
But I can’t find any fraud
Can u link it please
You should check out "Piss Aaron" on "Something, Anything!"
Mark
Never seen psychedelic cammo before.
Mark
Give his music away for free... 😀
Actually, he's extremely talented, many of his songs have been extremely witty. Yes, he's a hardcore moonbat, but many in the music industry are. Over the decades he's been an innovator in studio production, digital synthesizers, video production, and on top of all that, he's one heck of a guitarist.
Mark
Over 100 replies and nobody has mentioned his best known ding
We gotta get you a Woman
.,,,,and then we’ll get me one too
Major Squarehead
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